"The Paradoxicality of That"

                                                           The Paradoxicality of That

Miles and Miles
Years and Years
of Desert to Walk

There is land here that no human foot
     has ever touched.
There is walkable land here that no human foot
     has ever touched,
     nor animal.

You are so small, so insignificant

And yet,

You are the most significant thing
     In this time and place.

And the paradoxicality of that
     is what puzzles you the most.


That
     and the spiders with their webs
            Drifting by on the evening breeze;
                  the deafening silence through which
                     even the raven in flight does not make a
                        Peep.



© Alex Mitchell